Enough Rest for the Weary?

Study: Although most Australian pilots say they’re well rested, others are on the ‘threshold’ of fatigue-related impairment.

by Linda Werfelman | February 27, 2019

One-third of the pilots questioned in an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) survey say they told managers at least once in the 12 months before responding to the 2016 survey that they were too fatigued to fly — and that they believed their fatigue reports were frowned upon by management, the ATSB says.1

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